The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-19
Trade and Industrial Notes.


larceny.
Trade and Industrial Notes
The Indianapolis wheel works are pressed
with orders that they are working overtime
The Indianapolis lounge factories use over one
ton of coiled.wire springs daily, or three nun
dred and fifty tons annually.
The Perry Roadcart Company last week
shipped two carloads of their carts to San Fran
cisco and one carload to Los Angeles.
knight 6 Jison have recently shipped five
miles of natural-gas pipe to Dalev.ile, Ind, and
they will soon have their plant in operation
The Jenney Electric Company is not at
present taking further orders. and has recently
put on an all-night force to fill orders now on
the books.
Gallup & Co.. on Saturday. shipped eight of
their belt measuring and rolling machines to
New York, Atlanta, St Louis, Rochester, N. Y,
and other points
g. B. Cones & Son, manufacturers of overals
and garments of that class, are turning out
three thousand garments per day. They give
employ ment to 369 girls.
Thomas Madden, lounge manufacturer, has
largely increased his facilities for doing work,
and will manufacture fancy desks tables, ETC.,
in addition to his lounge work.
Indianapolis is becoming a great mark ct for
prairie hay. 1t is stated that within the last
four months 250 carloads of this product have
been handled by Indiana polls dealers
The Eagle Machine-wo-ks Company to-day
take possession of their new three-story build
ing which is to be used as their carpenter shop
and for erecting threshers ana engines in.
G. H Shower will to day turn out monster
transfer wagon, built for the Indianapolis cab
networks. The wagon has capacity to carry
twenty-four of their large-sized desks at one
load.
Sinker Davis & Co. last week shipped four
immense boilers and smoke-stacks to Fond du
Lac. The smoke-stack is said to be the largest
in dimensions that has ever been put up in the
West
Tho Atlas engine-work are furnishing
considerable number of engines for the various
manufactures that are being built in the South,
and have shipped within the last few days en-
gines to Texas and Alabama
The Touring mills are only running half their
capacity. difficult is it to get wheat OF the
grade they need. The millers state that were
they to run their full capacity, in ten days they
would be out of wheat entirely
The Udell wooden-ware works are already
receiving large orders for next year. One
Southwestern house Thursday last closed a
contract for eleven carlos of the articles they
manufacture to be delivered in January.
Dean Bros. last week made shipment of a
large duplex pump to Baltimore, Md, railroad
water station pump to Lancaster, o., duplex
pump to Port Huron. Mich, and pumps to Co
lumbus, Ga, Louisville. KY, and HoPkinsville,
KY.
Only IS, 200 hogs were killed during the last
week. Landers 81 Co. were closed all the week.
Coffin. Greenstreet 6 Fletcher killed but 4 200,
and Kingan 6 Co. but "a. 600. The packers find it
difficult to purchase hogs TO keep them in opera
ton.
The Indianapolis Pottery Company is getting
well upon its feet financially. and from inquiries
they receiving anticipate big demand
for their product next year. They are now IN
shape to turn out 30 per cent. more goods than
they could in the year nearing its close.
Haugh, Ketcham e. Co. on Saturday COM
menced the delivery of the heavy iron Orders
which are to span Pogue's run between Merid-
ian and Delaware streets. on which the tracks
of the Union railway will be laid. They num-
Der thirty-four and weigh 5000 pounds each.
There are seven extensive lounge manufactor-
les in this city. and all are crowded with orders,
and report the propects for doing an immense
business next year very f1atterlng. Otto Stech-
han has this Jear shipped 45. 600 lounge frames
and 1900 upholstered lounges. exceeding the
production of any former year fully % per
cent.
Although pressed with orders the honiny
mills are running only about one-third their ca
pacity, SO difficult is it to obtain the grades of
corn they obliged to use. One OF the man
ufacturers saws that the two mills are getting
about ten cars of corn a day. and would readily
work mp thirty carloads per day if they could
get it.
last week received an order for one OF their
machines from Decatur, Alabama, and a sixty
horse power Atlas engine to operate it. They
also shipped a machine to Dallas. Texas. Parties
in Moscow Russia, and Lima, Peru, South
America, are negotiating for some of these
machines.
r. B. Laycock g. Co., manufacturers of spring
BEDS ana woven wire mattresses, WHO were
burned out in October last to-day begin work
in their new building, which Is structure one
hundred feet long by fifty wide and three stories
high. They have put in new machinery. The
improvements they have been making cost in
the neghborhood of SIC, 900.
Gordon. Kurtz & Co. have their new building
on South Meridian street under roof, and when
completed will have the largest Wholesale sad
dlery hardware and carriage goods house in the
West. There are four floors, 175 feet In length
by % feet in width One PASSENGER and one
freight elevator, and numerous other modern
improvements are to be found in the building
There are two excelsior manufactures in this
city, and they are crowded with orders the year
round. About one-half of their production is
taken by Indianapolis furniture and lounge
makers, and the remainder is shipped to all
parts of the country. 1t Is estimated that the
two establishments have this year made 5000
tons of excelsior, using that number of cords
of linn wood.
The New York World deyotes consid cradle
space to stating the features of big po ultry
deal which has been made by a half dozen large
dealers of that city, and speaks Of the fact that
they are to handle this Christmas season $4,000
chickens and turkeys. In the West this would
be considered small quantity of poultry to
handle. Budd &c Co. have nearly double that
number of chickens and turkeys in their cold
storage houses and are buying tons of turkeys
daily The same is true of A. Jordan and j. b.
Sullivan. In Indianapolis such deal as the
World speaks of would be considered very small.
Thedemand for flour mill machinery during the
past few years caused to spring into existence
number of new withdrawing establishments,
which commenced the manufacture of roller
mills These so it is alleged infringe the
patents of the original inventors. The original
patents cover all the practical and essential fea-
lures of any desirable style of roller machine.
The original inventors. of whom one is of the
firm of Nordyke & Mormon Company. of this
city, have organized the Consolidated Roller-mill
Company for mutual protection. and have
brought suits in the United States Court against
Stout, Mills g. Temple, of DAYTON. o.. Rich
mond City mill-works,- of Richmond, Ind;
Knowlton & Dolan. of Logansport Ind; Bar
nard e Leas, of Moline, H.. and the Miller
Company, of Canton o. 1t is said that suits
will be filed shortly against other infringing
manufacturers.
u. NJ. G.. Il. Notes.
The regular meeting OF the association occurs
tonight instead of tomorrow evening on ac-
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